"Foxes" starring Jodie Foster

With TV's ChaChi!

great 80s flick.

Daring to do it

The only movie where Jodie Foster actually looks like a girl.

I LOVE this movie. Reflected my teenage life. Crazy in retrospect but it was back when parents were taking care of themselves not the kids - the polar opposite of helicopter parents. And everyone’s parents were getting divorced. All the rules were off - even on underage sex (ex, Brooke shields half naked and sexually provocative underage was normal) Us kids did some crazy stuff- sex drugs booze. Maybe not healthy - but it makes me think of today’s kids as totally sheltered innocents.

i like it when that girl rips the condom machine off of the wall.

I was much more attracted to Sally Kellerman than to Scott Baio.

[quote] Us kids did some crazy stuff- sex drugs booze.

...and bad grammar.

Who's the skank in the tube top and leather pants? She seems trampy.

I remember the end where she coughed blood up into the oxygen mask, that freaked me out as much as Kim Richards getting shot in "Assault on Precinct 13" I was like 7 years old and watched whatever I wanted on Showtime.

R9 That is singing sensation Cherie Currie, formerly of the Runaways.

And she was once married to Angie's Robert Hays.

"Foxes" is one of the best films of the very early '80s.

Jodie Foster, Cherie Currie, Randy Quaid, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Laura Dern, and the older 'swinging' couple, who are partly responsible for the untimely demise of "Annie."

Adrian Lyne's (the fllm's director) photography of the opening scene is sublime, with Donna Summer and Gorgio Moroder providing the background score.

Here's the full film, unedited.

Enjoy -

r13 Partly responsible? Fully fucking responsible, with their creepiness and drunk driving. They killed Annie! But we'll bury her ashes under the apple tree, "mmm, Annie tastes good this year!"

[quote]i like it when that girl rips the condom machine off of the wall.

You're thinking of Little Darlings.

. . . "partly responsible" because Annie made the decision to accept their offer.

It's a very odd movie: the girls' situation at a school in Hollywood (where they can just see a girl in their sex ed class strolling down Hollywood Boulevard in a bikini with a transparent dress over it, trolling for johns, and take it for granted) was pretty unlike most US teenagers' experiences in 1980, and yet the film treats it like it's all a slice of normal American life. You see why it didn't do very well at the box office. But it's got that great look of films from 1978-1981 where everything is in soft-focus, and the girls wear the fascinating fashions of the time (vests, fashionable boots, qiana blouses, and makeup that always looks wet), and of course a Giorgio Moroder electronic music score, and Jodie Foster has never been prettier. Kandice Stroh is not very appealing as Deirdre but she has the look of the time down exactly (down to that weird hairdo Jennifer Grey also used to have), and Candace Curren is very slutty-appealing looking and has that awful feathered hair all the girls in my high school used to have. She's very believable in her part, but it's not a star-making performance. Marilyn Kagan has the best comic timing of the four, although she does look too old for her part.

I like all the trashy looking boys and men who orbit around the girls too--they're sexy for the era (like the main boys in "Everybody Wants Some!!").

[quote] Candace Curren is very slutty-appealing looking and has that awful feathered hair all the girls in my high school used to have. She's very believable in her part, but it's not a star-making performance.

Cherie Currie made this movie shortly after leaving The Runaways. She made a few other films after this as well. Every knows that Sally Kellerman was the real star of this film.

wasn't foxes in 1979?

Cherie Currie was really good at seeming strung out on drugs.

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The weirdest scene is the big fancy dinner party, where Marge serves her friends and their dates a crown rib at Randy Quaid's apartment, and then all these lowlifes keep coming to the party and get in a huge fight and completely trash the place.

Jodie did look really pretty here...

But pleated white trousers are not her friend.

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I remember this film showing up on HBO a lot for years after its theatrical run. Good film but between the constant playing of the beginnings of Donna Summer's On the Radio and that horrific ending in the hospital with the death of one of the friends, the film was quite a downer.

Oh my god r26, I was just coming to post that the ubiquitous "Radio" made the movie! I love that song.

And r22 the point of that is that she's not as mature as Randy thought and she sees that when her friends are acting like high schoolers, because they are. I thought that was a good scene.

I love the Giorgio Moroder music when Annie goes missing. Esp. when the drums kick in at the 2:57 mark.

Love this movie. My parents made me watch it to keep me on the straight path.

I was five when this movie and 'Fame' came out and I really wanted to see them both, but wasn't allowed to, when I did finally see them both as an adult, I couldn't get over how depressing both of them were.

I loved this movie. Great story and soundtrack.

I had forgotten Foxes was directed by Adiran Lyne. In retrospect, you can see him setting up a lot of what he later did in Flashdance.

I have vague recollections of the movie. I didn't even remember Baio in it. How big was his role?

Just googled Adam Faith. I didn't know he died. That's a shame.

Did anyone notice that the version of On The Radio played at the beginning of the film is not the same as the iconic Donna Summer hit song?

The movie version features a more subdued Summer using her head voice. Almost bordering on the falsetto Giorgio Moroder was partial to in her early hits like Love to Love You Baby, Spring Affair, and I Feel Love.

The On The Radio that became a hit song showcased Ladonna's belt/chest voice, more evident in other hits as well, like Last Dance, Bad Girls, and Hot Stuff (as well as in her Broadway pre-recording career).

Love this movie!!!!! I had it on VHS.

i was just young enough for all these girls to be like my friend's cool sisters and old enough to get it.

Randy Quaid is so gross.

Girls looked so cute then, I like how they did their hair.

The song was the best part and the slow part made it so depressing.

Yeah but compare the version at r38 to the one played in the film's opening credits. Two totally different recordings. And I'm not talking about the mix.

I love Sally Kellerman's speech in the movie:

"Maybe the whole bunch of you is sick. You booze. You dope. You sleep with whoever. I don't even know who you are. You look like kids, but you don't act like 'em. You're short 40-year-olds and you're tough ones."

R40, and it showed why Kellerman was out of touch. She understood the behavior but not the mindset. They didn't act like kids but they still were and the irony was that they weren't tough at all.

R40 She deserved an Oscar nomination for that scene.

[quote]The other two actresses were too old to be playing teenagers.

What a stupid thing to say

O.M.G. Loved this when I was young.

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